Claude Code CLI sessions (claude -p) not injected with freshell skills

[danshapiro]

Summary

When claude -p is invoked from within a freshell session (e.g., via a script), the spawned CLI process does not have freshell skills available. The child session runs without any of the skills that the parent freshell session had loaded.

Reproduction

1. Start a freshell session with skills installed
2. Run a script that invokes claude -p (e.g., piping a prompt into it)
3. The claude -p session does not have access to freshell skills

Expected behavior

Skills available in the parent freshell session should be propagated to claude -p child sessions, or there should be a documented mechanism to pass them through (e.g., via --plugin-dir or environment variable).

Context

Discovered while building an import script for trycycle that uses claude -p to dynamically adapt skills. The child sessions needed access to the trycycle repo context but had no skill awareness.

[danshapiro]

Closing — opened by mistake due to a miscommunication.